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Continue reading →: Gaudi’s Architecture
Love it or hate it, Gaudi’s architecture is unmistakable. This photograph was taken on my first trip to Barcelona, earlier this week. It’s a great city. I am sure I will go again.
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Continue reading →: Daniel Dewsbury 2
Link: Duncan Borrowman: Daniel Dewsbury. More on the outcome from Duncan Borrowman.
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Continue reading →: Daniel Dewsbury
Link: Praguetory Victory? At any rate the Labour Party has made him an acceptable offer, which is good. I am very pleased for him. Praguetory has the details.
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Continue reading →: The UK Daily Pundit: Bring Out Your Dead
Link: The UK Daily Pundit: Bring Out Your Dead. This made me laugh more than anything else in the last week.
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Continue reading →: Pope still Catholic
Link: Burning our money: You don’t say. A nicely tongue-in-cheek assessment of a very dangerous situation. In the Soviet Union, there was an abundance of scientists because “hard” science was less vulnerable to ideological pressure. New Labour, however, has “modernised” that too.
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Continue reading →: Do the decent thing, Labour. Go on, you might like it if you once try it.
I am very happy to be a co-signatory to this letter, sent to Hazel Blears today in her capacity as Chair of the Labour Party: 7 November 2006 Re: Mr Danny Dewsbury Employment – URGENT Dear Ms Blears, We are writing to you in respect of your engagement of Mr…
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Continue reading →: Climate chaos? Don’t believe it
Link: Telegraph | News | Climate chaos? Don’t believe it . In 1995, David Deming, a geoscientist at the University of Oklahoma, had written an article reconstructing 150 years of North American temperatures from borehole data. He later wrote: “With the publication of the article in Science, I gained significant…
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Continue reading →: The Devil’s Kitchen: Falling at the first hurdle
Link: The Devil’s Kitchen: Falling at the first hurdle. “Councillor Terry falls at the first hurdle really, by proudly declaring “I’m a Socialist” which, as you may have gathered by now, equates—in the narrowed eyes of your humble Devil—to him announcing that, “I am a narrow-minded, vicious, jealousy-driven tosspot with…
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Continue reading →: Suspect Paki » United KKKingdom
Link: Suspect Paki » Blog Archive » United KKKingdom. A lot of bloggers have referenced this splendid rant by a blogger new to me, known as “Suspect Paki.” We read a fair few rants about British Muslims. It’s refreshing to read a rant by a British Muslim, especially as he…
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Tom is a retired international lawyer. He was a partner in a City of London law firm and spent almost twenty years abroad serving clients from all over the world.
Returning to London on retirement in 2011, he was dismayed to discover how much liberty had been lost in the UK while he was away.
He’s a classical liberal (libertarian, if you must) who, like his illustrious namesake, considers that
“…government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.”
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I’m generally against more laws but would make an exception for this. Goose, Gander, etc. We should be using their…
I like it and agree. I’m not sure how many others would! 😎
That’s a modern “more law” approach — and certainly consistent with our Establishment’s current aggressive approach. However I don’t want…
Maybe they should be legally required to only provide halal to muslims or those that request it. If you are…
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Remove the exception is my preference. Prove that it is only consumed by those following the relevant faith is unwieldy.…